Friday, June 09, 2017

Rotten tomatoes and the movie list of a lifetime

I've been super into podcasts lately, and one of my favorites is "Classic Movie Recall" It amounts to 15 minutes or so of two friends and a guest discussing their view of a classic movie. The show is entertaining and informative.

It also got me thinking about movie lists again. What are some of the must-see movies?

Rotten Tomatoes aggregates the 100 most popular movies into a list, using the criteria of number of reviews and their fresh/rotten ranking. Technically, it could change every time a new review is posted. So here's where we stand today:

32 Dr. Strangelove Or How I
Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

33 Rebecca (1940)

SEEN

34 Vertigo
(1958)

35 Rosemary's Baby (1968)

36 Frankenstein
(1931)

SEEN

37 Touch of Evil
(1958)

38 The 39 Steps
(1935)

39 Gone With the
Wind (1939)

SEENI'LL PROBABLY WATCH AGAIN

40 The Last
Picture Show (1971)

SEEN

41 The Grapes of
Wrath (1940)

SEEN

42 Roman Holiday
(1953)

43 On the
Waterfront (1954)

SEEN

44 Battleship Potemkin (1925)

45 Anatomy of a
Murder (1959)

SEEN

46 Lawrence of Arabia
(1962)

SEEN

47 The Lady
Vanishes (1938)

48 The Leopard
(1963)

49 Chinatown (1974)

SEEN

50 Cool Hand Luke (1967)

SEEN

51 An American
in Paris
(1951)

SEEN

52 The Searchers
(1956)

SEEN

53 The Gold Rush
(1925)

54 It's a
Wonderful Life (1946)

SEENI'LL DEFINITELY WATCH AGAIN

55 Sweet Smell
of Success (1957)

56 The Red Shoes
(1948)

57 The Big Sleep
(1946)

SEEN

58 MaryPoppins
(1964)

SEEN

59 To Be or Not
to Be (1942)

60 City Lights
(1931)

SEEN

61 The French
Connection (1971)

62 Invasion of
the Body Snatchers (1956)

63 His Girl
Friday (1940)

SEEN

64 Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

SEENI'LL DEFINITELY WATCH AGAIN

65 Throne of
Blood (1957)

66 BarryLyndon
(1975)

67 Freaks (1932)

SEEN

68 Badlands (1974)

69 Gentlemen
Prefer Blondes (1953)

70 Mean Streets
(1973)

71 The
Manchurian Candidate (1962)

72 Spartacus (1960)

SEEN

73 The Best
Years of Our Lives (1946)

SEENI'LL PROBABLY WATCH AGAIN

74 Forbidden
Planet (1956)

75 The Lord of
the Rings: The TwoTowers (2002)

SEEN

76 101
Dalmatians (1961)

SEEN

77 The Day the
Earth Stood Still (1951)

SEEN

78 Duck Soup
(1933)

SEENI'LL PROBABLY WATCH AGAIN

79 Fantasia
(1940)

SEENI'LL PROBABLY WATCH AGAIN

80 2001: A Space
Odyssey (1968)

SEEN

81 The Lord of
the Rings: The Return of the King (2003)

82 Some Like It
Hot (1959)

SEEN

83 Bringing Up
Baby (1938)

SEENI'LL PROBABLY WATCH AGAIN

84 Ran (1985)

85 Sunrise: A Song of Two
Humans (1927)

86 Peeping Tom
(1960)

87 One Flew Over
the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

SEEN

88 The Birds
(1963)

SEENI'LL PROBABLY WATCH AGAIN

89 A Fistful of
Dollars (Per un Pugnodi Dollari) (1964)

90 Rebel Without
a Cause (1955)

SEENI'LL PROBABLY WATCH AGAIN

91 Paths of
Glory (1957)

92 The Bridge on
the River Kwai (1957)

SEENI'LL PROBABLY WATCH AGAIN

93 Goldfinger
(1964)

94 Night of the
Living Dead (1968)

95 Don't Look
Now (1973)

96 Dr. No (1962)

97 The Apartment (1960)

SEEN

98 From Russia With
Love (1964)

99 L'Avventura (1960)

100 To Catch a
Thief (1955)

I've marked the ones that I've already seen, but I've past the point where I obsessively watch movies just to complete a list. So if it's interesting, I'll add it to my Netflix queue or my gowatchit list of movies to watch (btw, try gowatchit.com. They notify you when a movie you want to see is available to stream, on the platforms you select. Super useful.)

After 7 months of inactivity on this blog, I won't promise that I'm going to post reviews, but who knows?